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Resistant City: Histories, Maps and the Architecture of Development - Couverture rigide

Seng, Eunice Mei Feng

 
9789811204616: Resistant City: Histories, Maps and the Architecture of Development
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9811204616 ISBN 13 : 9789811204616
Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization. It is about islands as territories of resistance. It is about dense places where multitudes dwell in perennial contestations with the city on every front. It is about the histories, tactics and spaces of everyday survival within the hegemonic sway of global capital and unstoppable development. It is preoccupied with making visible the culture of resistance and architecture's entanglement with it. It is about urban resilience. It is about Hong Kong, where uncertainty is status quo.

This interdisciplinary volume explores real and invented places and identities that are created in tandem with Hong Kong's urban development. Mapping contested spaces in the territory, it visualizes the energies and tenacity of the people as manifest in their daily life, social and professional networks and the urban spaces in which they inhabit. Embodying the multifaceted nature of the Asian metropolis, the book utilizes a combination of archival materials, public data sources, field observations and documentation, analytical drawings, models, and maps.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eunice Seng is Associate Professor and Chair of the PhD program in Architecture at The University of Hong Kong; and Principal of SKEW Collaborative Shanghai-Hong Kong. An architect and architectural historian, her work explores interdisciplinary intersections and questions of agency in architecture, housing, domesticity and public space.

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Éditeur
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9811204616
ISBN 13 
9789811204616
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
362
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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